Word: stresemanns
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...French, American, British and German authorities have proclaimed as a lie that paragraph in the Treaty of Versailles which holds Germany alone responsible for the War." Thus opened the preamble to a document signed last week by 1,000,000 Germans. It is a petition requesting Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann to bend every effort toward securing the establishment of an international tribunal to adjudicate War guilt...
...Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of Germany: "A story went the rounds of Berlin last week that my ability to entertain lavishly on a salary of $6,400 a year is due to the kindly furtherance of my affairs by the multimillionaire Dr. von Kleefeld, my bachelor brother...
Briand returns. A too idyllic calm marked the Cabinet session at which Foreign Minister Briand reported upon his tentative negotiations with Foreign Minister Stresemann of the Reich at Thoiry (TIME, Sept. 27). M. Briand, apostle of international concord, secured from M. Poincare, exponent of militant French nationalism, acceptance in principle of the proposed Franco-German compromise: 1) France to evacuate the Rhineland in 1927, return the Saar to Germany in 1928, and withdraw all opposition to the purchase by Germany from Belgium of Eupen and Malmedy; 2) Germany to transfer to France for these concessions four billion francs...
...Gambrinus Bierabend." It was necessary for Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany to conciliate the German Nationalists if they were to agree to pay France what they described as "the bribe of Thoiry." Perhaps the cleverest diplomat in Europe, he participated at a farewell "bierabend" tendered him by the German colony at Geneva, before he returned from Thoiry to Berlin. Surrounded by convivial friends - devotees of Gambrinus, the legendary inventor of beer-Gustav Stresemann purposely became "indiscreet." ; He "talked a bit." He exulted at the forthcoming liberation of the Rhineland. He cried that the stain of War guilt had been wiped...
...Sunday Speech." If Germany has been wiped clean of War guilt, what states are War guilty? French Nationalists saw in the "bierabend speech" of Herr Stresemann an implied casting of War guilt on France. Moreover Premier Poincare himself has been accused of being the chief author of the World War by revisionist historians. Would he stomach "Gambrinus" Stresemann's indiscretions? When M. Poincare announced that he would make one of his famed "Sunday speeches" at Bar-le-Duc, French Nationalist newsgatherers scurried thither, prepared to hear him tear the compromise of Thoiry to tatters...